5UOALIIAVEN :FLOODS RELIEF COMMITTEE. This committee, consisting jointly of the'Bench and Council, met pursuant to adjournment, in -the Court-house, Nowra,.on Monday, the 16th instant, at 11.o'clock a.m. Present-Kenneth M'Kenzio, 'Esq., J.P., in the chair; Alfred Elyard, .Andrd do Mestre, James Wadding, Esqrs., J.P.s; Aldermen MIGuire, Moss, and Munro. Mr. Thomas'Boyce,,secretary, was directed by the Chairman to call.over the names of the applicants for seed wheat whose claims .remained .for further examination. As eaChrname-was cilled, a careful investigation followed. Some claims were rejected; a few new claimants were adrritted; and on finishing the entire list, it appeared that the committee had passed applications amounting in all to one thousand one hundred and seventeen and a half (1117k) bushels. The committee then resolved-1. That the secretary shall in every case issue a ticket author isiug the applicant toreceivethe amount of wheat granted. 2. That the applicant shall bri...

TcoC035NICATED1 'Thofinal meeting of the -Ploughing 1aftch Corn mittee took place last night at the Jamberoo Hotel, when the accounts were gone over most-satisfac torily, showing, after all accounts paid, o surplus of £1, which was passed on to the next year's-fund. It was proposed by some of the gentlemen present that.if some of the leading gentlemen of the dis trict could ibe got to.tako?.part in it, there could be -a cattle -chow got -up -in connection with the ploughing match. The necessary funds could be as easily raised as those .of the ploughing match, and as-it was remarked, it would-do a greatdeal more good to the district. The weather has again set in rainy, and the now made roads are more like swamps than anything else. Ploughing lhas begun in a few places for wheat, but not much can be done, as the weather won't permit. There is *nothing doing in the way of sales by auction. People seem to he all stocked,.and as a matter of course won't buy. ,

JAMBEICO0, April :1. The principal subject of my present communica. -tion has a melancholy difference from that of my last. Since I have been in the habit of correspond. ing with your journal, therelhavo been, as it nppears' to me, .a startling number of dcaths.iu this settle. ment and its neighborhood, though, for various reasons I have not .myself recorded them all. It may be recollected that,,no'long time since, I'had occasion to inform you of tile death of a child of our friend Mr. George Wood, jun.,-which had only strvived its -birth a-very short time. --On Monday, about midnight, the parents of that infant.were deprived of their eldest and solo surviving child, William, a fine boy of about twenty months. Yes terday (Wednesday), the earthly remains.of this young immortal were committed-to the ground in the burial-yard of the Episcopalian connection, with as much of the I?ompa mortis as thevillage could supply-the most noteworthy portion .of the cere. many being tho appropriate ...

Fruit Trees. A VARIETY of Orange and other choico 'Frit Trees for SALE. Also, A good collection of Ornamental Plntts iin pots. GEORGE TURNER, : Footland 'Place, ' K. iama. Kiama.-Eduoational Eistablishment roe YOUNG LADIES, CONDUCTED au MISS HUSTLER. THE Proprietress willbo in a position from the first of the month to receive a large number of young Ladies as Boarders, having taken a more commodious house. Terms.................. 40 guineas per ahnum. Reference to the parents of children now in the! Establishment. Circulars and all noce ary particular amay bh obtained on application to opriotross, KiRýun Required, an experienccd du?I oyvernes?.i $· C OMPEIENT GENERAL. SERVT Mr. HUSTLER'S Academy. : Wanted to Let, - THE Flling and Burning-off of .Twenty .Aor of timber, Apply to WILLIAM GORDON, Summer Hill. Illawarra Steam Navigation Company.': THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the above Company, will be held at the offices at the Pf(ENIX WHARF, Sydney, on FRIDAY, the 27th i...

SHOALllAVEN. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.--QUARTERLY c EETINu. TuE Council met pursuant to Act of Parliament, and to adjournment, on Thursday the 12th April, in the Court House, Nowra, at Noon. Present-The Worshipful the Mfayor in the Chair, Alderman Moss, M'Guire, Bice, M'Grathl and M~llro. The Town Clerk read the minutes of the meeting, which.on the motion of Alderman Moss, seconded 'by Mkldrman Bice, -were confirmed. The Mayor brought up the report of the Improve -ment Committee for Nowra Ward which was read *by the'Town Clerk. Moved by Alderman M'Guiro seconded.by Alder man Moss-" That the report of the Improvement Committee forNowra Ward, be now received and adopted. The question was postponed .till tho business paper should be geone through. ' The Town Clerk read the' quarterly report, whichon the motion of Alderman Moss, seconded by Alderman Bice, was adopted and ordered to be -sent to the 'local -press for publication. 'The by-laws passed at the last -meeting were -reported and read c...

.SHELLHARBOR. Tuesday, April 18, A meeting was held'this day, in the Presbyterian Church, Shellharbor, for the purpose of devising means .to retain the Rev. Hugh M'Kail in his pastoral duties in this place. W. Moles, Esq., in.the chair-A 'letter was read from-the Rev. Hugh M'fKail, expressive of his non desire for change, it being quite in accordance with -his mindlto continuelaboring in his. presentephere. The .Rev. gentleman also expressed.his .opinion, that it was quite possible for the congregationseof Shelllsrboer, and Terry's Meadows,.to .become a self-supporting church, instead of as at present, being a burden to the other churches. A very strong feeling of regard and due .apprecia. tion of the Rev. Hugh M'Knil's usefulness in this place, was expressed by the meeting, and every effortthbat can be made to render .the Presbyterian cause 'in this place a self-supporting one, will be made.if the same desire whichs -ws o strongly ex pressed at tie meeting,-is.embodiedin the necess...

TARANAKI. 'Whe settlement of New Plymouth, or as it has .t'si?ce~been naned,'Taranaki, took place in the * early part of I841, under the auspices of a branch -ofthel New Zealand Company, which was es :ttblished at Plymouth. The site chosen was on -lthe Northern Island, at the eastern entrance to o Cook's Strait, and comprised an extent of country so famed for its fertility that it was long called ,.the garden of New Zealand. The characteristics of New Zealand is, that wherever there is a fine country there are no first-rate harbors-wherever ithere are first rate harbors there.is little available rlanidiu, close :proximity. .At 'Taranaki there is :nd??hlabor at all, and the roadstead is exposed to ,-tbc north-westerly winds. Its population has always been very limited, arising from the neces sity of its turning its attention to purely agricultu ral operations, the limited quantity of land :purchased from the natives, and the troublesome aspect.always carried by -the natives. During t...

NEW ZEALAND. S'- THE AFFAIRS AT WAREIKA. - [FeoB TaniO SOUTERa nCRO0S] TiiE conduct of the oficer (Colonel Murray) -in, command of .the Queen's ti oops in the affair of' W'areika, -as well as of Colonel Gold, in leaving. 'the irregulars to bear the brunt of the battle -wholly imsupported by the military, is tl e sub ject of loud conmplaint. But for the gallantry of. 'Captain Oracroft nnalthe seamen and.marines of the Niger in coming-to the rescue, most of the militia and volunteers must have been cut to pieces. One of the New Plymouth Volunteer Rifle Corps writes thus:--" Here (in,the town) .we.found.the alarm and excitement intense, every one believing that through the shameful conduct ,df Colonel Maurray, in so cruelly abandoning us, we should be all cut to pieces; and so we should have been if the natives had shown -any general ship. The cheering on our arrival was vociferous: "-vomen rushing out and actually putting their questions-" Have you seen so and so ?" " Have you seen my...

DEATH OF CAPTAItN IH4RRISON, DIF TIM GREAT EASiTER . CAPTAIN IHARRISON, of tlce Great Eastern steamship, whose name has been a " household word" during the past two years, owing to his connection with the magnificent vessel of which he was the selected commander, was drowned on the morning of January 21, owing to the upsetting of his gig while entering the mouth of the tidal dock of Southampton. He was crossing over to Southampton from IIythe, where he recently took a house for his filmily. With him in the. gig were Captain Lay, late purser ofthe Great Eastern, Dr. Watson, Cap tain Lay's son, a lad of eleven years of age, the captain's coxswain, and five able seamen. Al though the wind was blowing a hurricane at the time, no one appears to have had the slightest apprehen-ion of danger, or it would have been easy '; have made use of the ferry steamboat which.ecrmues from Hythe to the Southamnpton pier evcry half-hour. The captain's gig was thirly-two feet long, and nearly-five feet a...

MARRIED. On the 19th instant, by special license, at the re- sidence of the bride's sister, Elizabeth Terrace, Riley-street, Sydney, by the Rev. Hugh McKail, Mr. Frederick Hall, of Kiama, youngest son of the late Mr. William Hall, 11, Marshall-street, Golden Square, London, to Mary, youngest danghter of Mr. John Clark, Kiama, late of Victoria. On the 18th April, by special licence, at the re- sidence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Walter James Davis, of Kiama, Thomas Newing, to Maria Bailey, the youngest daughter of Willliam Bailey.

s'OLLONGONiG QUARTER SESSIONS. (FROM THE ILLAWARRA MIEcRCURY.) WVEDNESDAY, 18TH APRIL. BBeponE his Honor Henry Cary, .Esq. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. D. G. Forbes, and Mr. WV. Cary, were in attendance; and Messrs. R. Owen, S. S. Rogers, R. Waring, and T. H. Richards, solicitors. Thoejury list was called over, and all the parties answered to their names, except Messrs. T. Hale, W. W. Jenkins, D. W. Irving, W. Irving, Charles Horo, John Keys, and George Hewlett. The latter was excused on account of his being Postmaster. Messrs. Irving, Keyes, and W. Irving subsequently attended. Mr, Charles Hore was excused on ac count of unavoidable absence from the district, and Messrs. Hale and Jenkins were fined £5 each, his Honor remarking that their position as J.Ps did not excuse them from attendance as jurors. ASSAULT AT SIcELLIIARBOR. Campbell Mercer appeared on his recognizances to answer a charge of having, on the 24th November last, at SlIollharbor, unlawfully and maliciously in. flicted on...

Wesleyan Chapel Anniversary, Xiama. ,: On SUNDAY, April 29, TWO .SERMONS,-by the Rev.?W. J. DAvis, will be preached..in the Wesleyan Chapel: in the Morning at 11, and in the Evening at 7. Also, On TUESDAY Morning, 'At'half-past 10, A SERMON will: be preacied by the Revi,.JAMEs WATKIN. At the close of the Tuesday Morning Service, there will bhea,: : PUBLIC ,TEA MEETING, To commence t half past 12 o'?lock:' rAfter ;Tea, ,the Meeting will: bo .addressed. -by. Ministers. and Friends. '. . . Tickets to the TR; Is. e i.'each maiy be obtained fromi the Stownrde of the Society, Kiain Meoirsre. Boxsell and T. Blak, Gerringong andil the prnidipal storekeepers in the' district. A Collection will:be: made'at thoe "cbse of eachi : Service. Wanted, '' ?OR the office of this:: papoer' a respectable SYOUTH who can read and writo, to learn the business of a Compositor. Apply at the office.. SSALES BY AUCTION.-; : Prime Fat Bullocks.-.? i Hall's Horses, ' ....THURSDAY NEXT, 26th APRIL. . R. COLE will...

HOBART TOWN: :Thursday afternoon. i John Nash, convicted lnst.sessions of the murder of Dowling, and since reprieved, has been sentenced to death for shooting Constable Floee. . Julius Baker his been found gunilty of shooting two convicts whom he bhad induced to attempt to escape from :IPort 2rtur. . Friildy. Wheat remains firm. Oats are rising. English iarl'y advanced to (s. 4d. Cape barley, 4s. 3d. to •s. 4d.... . . , - ..... - ".

8UPREME COURRT.--Tus?ner. Srrrrna?s ?B o B...,s .BERne, the full Court. S " iARPE V. EMERlt. The argunent upon the motion f~ra new trhal in this case lasted the whole of the day without being concluded. It will he rdsumed on Mouday next. Friday's S. 3l. Herald. . ON Tuesday morning last, shortly after 'tbe Mimosa steamer left the wharf at Merimbula, a steerage passenger on hoard, burst a-blood vessel and died in a few minutes. ,.He.was. on his way from the diggings to tbhe hoopia. ,,The deceased was unknowsn to any one oti b6oal, lst byi a letter found on his person" from':liis seri. iit 'Silor's Gully; his name is either Richidriior'WThilleir. The' deceased.was taken on shore aRt Merlitabula, whereb an inquest would be held on thoebody that nighlt. Empire., i ,'.TuE celebrated race-horses Flyjng Buck and Rced Deer arrived yesterday. morning,; per ,London,: steamer, froin Melbourne. They look.in excellent condition, and' do not appear to have s'suffered in any, wayj during the voyag...

. MURDER NEAR al1lITLAND. S(weoM SATUODaY's ,MAITLAN?.?MnCunY.) ON Thursday, it was reported in town that:a.mur der had been comtmitted the previous day, nnar the llavensfieldqunrry, in, the bush off the Wollombi road.. On.inquiry it proved to-be too true.. A man ,named John Blrton was on. his way to Wollomnbi, with a dray, to purchase farm produce, poultry and eggs, and appeoirs to have been shot in the temple, and to have fallen dead et once. ,.A sum-of £20, which had been handed to him to buy produce with, was found.to.bo missing when thd body was 'found. . Up to the present, time; we believe, no !evidence has been obtained -throwing suspicion on. !any person. On Thursday, Dr.. M'Crtney held an inquest on the body,. in the house of. Mrs. Jane Thorpe, of Rutherford, when the following eyidence was given. :Alexander Thorpe. deposed that:' he resided at !Rutherford, and is a carrier. On the previous even ing, Wednesday,. about four o'clock, he went out 'on. the run for the cattle. A...

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:'TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (ABRIDoED FROM THE BERALD AND EMPIRE.) GUNDAGAL. Thursday afternoon.. T Snowy River Escort bes iurrived in Gundagni, snd-briiight down from Kiandra 6833 ozs. gold. Friday Morning. Ti;e Escort from the Snowy River arrived here yesterday. It left Kiandra on Monday, the 16th, under the charge of Sergeant Magimity, with five troopers, bringing direct from Kiandra, 6833 ozs. 15 dwts. 1 grain; from Adelong. 1203 oze. 15 dwts. 6 grains; from Tumut, 111 ozs. 15 dwts.; total, eight thousand one hundred and forty-nine ounces. Great-numbers .were leaving the diggings daily, a.the~weather.was breaking up. A great -rsh had heeoon made to Broken Cart Creek, for the purpose-ofwintering. Mr. Commis sioner Lockhart had taken charge of the-field, and great satisfaction .wase dxpressed by all parties at thi5 appointment, he bolng looked upon by all as the right man'in the right place. Mr. Charles Cowper, junior, J.P., has been con. certing plans for the preservation of orde...